Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Cask at the small Coal + Glass in the backs between Scotland Yard and Victoria Station in London. Golden with a small head. Golden style ale with pale ale qualities including a dryness, and not a huge amount of flavour, but enough. Has a light sweetness.

Twiggy hoppy and malty with note of biscuit my malts, caramel, grain, cereal, medium body and soft cask carbonation, bitter and dry finish. Nice.

Spoons Spring Fest 2025 - 24/30 sweet doughy bready malts and citrus fruity, notes of lemon and grapefruit, some grain, straw, soft cask carb, bitter hoppy and malty finish.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

0.5 l bottle. Deep amber color, quickly disappearing head. Piney, malty aroma with fruity scents. Bittersweet taste with short finish. Light to medium body. Nice brew for a macro beer.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

0.5 l bottle. Pours clear amber color with no head. Fruity notes and slight hoppy bitterness in aroma and taste. Short bitterish finish, light to medium body, soft carbonation. Not too complex yet good balanced brew.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

0.5 l bottle. Pours clear golden colour with no head. Very slight aromas of some hops, malts combined with metallic notes. In taste it has the same characteristics with a short-to-medium lasting, bitter finish. Light body, lively carbonation. Way too thin and watery.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

0.5 l bottle. Copper colour with white head. Malts, biscuits, some metallic notes. Slight, watery bittersweet taste with short finish. Light body, soft carbonation. Not good.

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask handpull at County Hotel JDW Ashford. Clear amber colour lasting off ivory head. I mean it's not horrible which is always my default for a Sheps beer. Even has some pleasant bitterness on the finish. Zesty fruit on the aroma and in the flavour. Just about ok condition. But the zesty fruit wakes the palate up and this is actually pretty good. Surprisingly good.

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

[Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading.] A pale amber pour with a tight white head; berry fruit aroma, slightly sour; sharp berry taste, perhaps some raspberry; then a dry finish with a lasting bitterness.